Welcome to the Archdiocese of Cape Town

Cape Town is commonly known as the Mother City of South Africa, and is the first ecclesiastical territory to be established in Southern Africa (1818). You are most welcome to this website. It is hoped that it will inform you and provide you with any information you may require regarding this segment of the Catholic Church.
We also provide links to other websites which might interest you. If you require any information not included here, email us and we will do what we can to help.
If you have discovered this page by accident, you are especially welcome and we hope you will find it of some value and maybe help you to understand how the Catholic Church in Cape Town is trying to serve the community and so bring it closer to the Lord.

 

News & Events

McCann Book Launch

A FINAL REMINDER to sign up for the book launch of: “Cardinal Owen McCann – Catholicism, Apartheid, and Diplomacy in South Africa” by Alexandra Maclennan. The official launch will take place at 16.00 on 18 November, at the Archdiocesan Chancery in Cape Town, and will be hosted by Bishop Sylvester David OMI. Please see details […]

Archdiocesan Directory 2026-7

Download this PDF of the Archdiocese of Cape Town 2026-7 Directory for use on your Desktop. archdiocesan directory 2026-7

A Final Call to Vote

Please receive below a letter from Archbishop Sithembele Sipuka on “A Final Call to Vote”, which is also to be read out at all Masses this coming weekend.  

We Are One: Reflection for 20 October 2026

We are one. Reflection for 20 October 2026. In our first reading for today’s Mass (Ephesians 2:12-22), St Paul reminds us that we were once “strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope”. Yet through the blood of Christ those who were “far off have been brought near”. Jesus broke down the dividing walls […]

Liturgical Calendar

The Catholic Bookshop is selling the Liturgical Calendar for next year, 2027. The Calendar contains all the readings and liturgical colours for the year, beginning on 1st January and ending 31st December 2027, including feasts and memorials for the Dioceses of South Africa, Botswana, eSwatini, Lesotho, Namibia and Zimbabwe and the Four week Psalter for […]

World Day of Migrants and Refugees

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has sent the following link, which contains the   Message of Pope Leo XIV for the 112th World Day of Migrants and Refugees “Even just one of these children” 2026 (WDMR),   This day will be celebrated on Sunday 27 September,   With this link, you will also […]